Kingsmead Eyes at the V&A Museum of Childhood

An exhibition of photographs from a dynamic photographic collaboration will go on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood from 7 November. Photographers Gideon Mendel and Crispin Hughes have been working with children from Hackney's Kingsmead School for more than six months encouraging them to make reportage photographs of their surroundings

Emete Armstrong's picture of her dolls Jessica, Joey and Sam. Emete, 11, is one of 13 children in her family and they have now moved off the Kingsmead estate to a bigger house in Stoke Newington, Hackney

Jordan Lema, 10, lives in Dalston, Hackney, with his mum and dad, sister Milvie, 14, and brother Bradley, aged one (pictured on their sofa). They ­recently left their flat on the Kingsmead to move to a bigger house, and though Jordan was happy to get his own ­bedroom, he misses his estate friends

Jordan's mother Filomena on the phone. She rings her family twice a week. “She has been ­calling my dad in Congo. He went on holiday and is ­coming back next week. He went to help out with the money and to build a new house for us when we holiday there"

Paula Kastrati, 10, lives with her brother, Prince, 11, and their parents. Their mother, ­Mariana, who is Kosovan, is ­studying IT at college. Their father, Miguel, who is Albanian, is a security guard. This is Paula's self-portrait with her face covered with bubbles

Sally's father Eugene in his dressing gown. Eugene holds down two jobs – one in a ­restaurant, another as a security guard. “He leaves at 6am and comes home at 11pm,” says Sally. “But I see him on Wednesdays, his day off. He picks us up from school"

Sally Hammond, 10, lives with her parents and her brother, Jesse, nine, in a fourth-floor flat on the Kingsmead estate. She has two older siblings in Ghana, where her parents come from. This is a self-portrait in her dressing gown